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As a current student Compsci student who's done an (introductory) web dev class, may I say I have not been taught this way _at all_. In fact this notion of offl

As a current student Compsci student who's done an (introductory) web dev class, may I say I have not been taught this way _at all_. In fact this notion of offloading stuff to the client never came up at all in the class. That's just my experience. I think these ferocious views must be coming from the individual - but I do realise not all courses are the same and this student may have actually been (wrongly) taught this way.

abiogenesis 6y ago
It is most likely a result of an echo chamber of students with no or little industry experience. It doesn't help that the younger people generally own client devices with more up-to-date specs.
- cyberdrunk 6y ago
  Also, young people like to cling to new industry trends. It makes sense for them - if they would try to become an expert in something that is decades old, they would have to compete with people with decades of experience, while new tech creates a level playing field for the both the graduates and the veterans. This might also be one of the reasons for why we see such an diarrea of technologies in our industry - coding is mostly done by young people, many of them not more than a couple years into their careers. Pushing for new tech pays off for them.
JJMcJ 6y ago
Some, not all but some, new grads hear something from a prof or maybe departmental philosophy, and they will defend it to the death until they see real life for a while.
tomc1985 6y ago
Compsci education is more focused on theory. Your prof is more likely to come from old-school corporate dev or 90s startups and probably has jaded views towards much of this new stuff like a lot of the passionate "designers and tinkerers" do nowadays I'd bet this doctrine is probably being promulgated by the non-academics at trade schools and boot camps
- 0xdeadb00f 6y ago
  In my class we learnt server and client side JS. I feel my prof's approach to webdev was quite modern. It was a very practical class and none of the theory we learnt was actually tested.

abiogenesis 6y ago

It is most likely a result of an echo chamber of students with no or little industry experience. It doesn't help that the younger people generally own client devices with more up-to-date specs.

cyberdrunk 6y ago
Also, young people like to cling to new industry trends. It makes sense for them - if they would try to become an expert in something that is decades old, they would have to compete with people with decades of experience, while new tech creates a level playing field for the both the graduates and the veterans. This might also be one of the reasons for why we see such an diarrea of technologies in our industry - coding is mostly done by young people, many of them not more than a couple years into their careers. Pushing for new tech pays off for them.

JJMcJ 6y ago

Some, not all but some, new grads hear something from a prof or maybe departmental philosophy, and they will defend it to the death until they see real life for a while.

tomc1985 6y ago

Compsci education is more focused on theory. Your prof is more likely to come from old-school corporate dev or 90s startups and probably has jaded views towards much of this new stuff like a lot of the passionate "designers and tinkerers" do nowadays I'd bet this doctrine is probably being promulgated by the non-academics at trade schools and boot camps

0xdeadb00f 6y ago
In my class we learnt server and client side JS. I feel my prof's approach to webdev was quite modern. It was a very practical class and none of the theory we learnt was actually tested.